{"id":321315,"date":"2026-08-14T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321315\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:34:15","slug":"taylor-hawkins-relationship-with-queens-roger-taylor-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321315\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Hawkins&#8217; Relationship With Queen&#8217;s Roger Taylor Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Foo Fighters have influenced countless musicians over the years, but they had their own influences in turn. For late drummer Taylor Hawkins, many of history&#8217;s greatest percussionists inspired his playing style, and he&#8217;s been open about the influences. Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland from The Police, Rush&#8217;s Neil Peart \u2014 Hawkins looked to the all-time greats, but perhaps the drummer who most had an impact on Hawkins&#8217; career choice was Queen&#8217;s Roger Taylor. Far more than a mere icon in Hawkins&#8217; life, Roger Taylor actually became friends with the late drummer, and the two even shared the stage. Here&#8217;s a look inside Taylor Hawkins&#8217; relationship with Queen drummer Roger Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Foo Fighters have influenced countless musicians over the years, but they had their own influences in turn.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[121053,9,24,63,122,124,123,673,117372,86255,121052],"class_list":["post-321315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-neil-peart","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-roger-taylor","tag-stewart-copeland","tag-taylor-hawkins","tag-the-foo-fighters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}